The Ultimate Resource Guide for Plant-Based Living

Here is our favorite list of resources for people starting out on a plant-based journey.The list has been selected from some of the brightest, long-standing spokespeople and players in the plant-based field. From websites to books to recipes, we have collected many of the vast resources from years of partnerships with the great champions in the plant-based arena. We understand that resources in this field are ever evolving so if you feel we have missed any important additions, we’d love to hear from you.

News you can use, including studies on diet and health and the doctor’s speaking engagement calendar so you can find an event near you.

The entertaining and informative video, “An Evening with the Esselstyn’s”, plus FREE videos including Dr. Esselstyn’s Ted Talk and testimonial from former President Bill Clinton, who credits the doctor with changing his life!

A fully updated DVD, which contains the same material as his live seminar.

Dr. Michael Greger is a physician, author, and speaker who scours the world’s nutrition research to bring you FREE daily videos and articles. Plus, he donates all proceeds from his books, DVDs, and speaking to charity.

New video posts on the Facebook page every other day. Videos are closed-captioned and the transcripts are also published. Very handy!

Created by Rip Esselstyn, a former world-class professional tri-athlete, and the son of Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., this site is all about fully embracing tasty, nutritious, whole, plant-based foods without sacrificing energy, stamina or fitness.

Getting Started section for anyone looking for advice, ideas and more.

Julieanna Hever is a passionate advocate of the miracles of a whole food, plant-based diet. She’s the host of Veria Living Network’s What Would Julieanna Do? and author of the best-selling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition.

Julieanna’s blog helps you keep up on popular nutrition news.

Her vast resource section is an exhaustive list of books, cookbooks and web sites to help you become the herbivore you want to be.

Books

The Starch Solution – Dr. John McDougall’s ground-breaking book dispels the myth that starch is the enemy! It also contains the 100 most popular recipes published and tested by the McDougalls throughout the years.

The China Study by Drs. T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell. This book sparks the desire to transition to and is the foundation for a plant-based lifestyle to many people, myself included. A must-have for your library and your life.

The Forks Over Knives Plan by Drs. Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman. There’s also an app, which costs a little, but is worth a lot!

The Vegiterranean Diet by Julieanna Hever, which contains some of THE very best Mediterranean recipes – cooked with NO OILS!

Let Them Eat Vegan by Dreena Burton. Her recipes are some of the best in the world. So delicious and satisfying! In her new book, Plant Powered Families, Dreena shares over 100 whole-food, vegan recipes – tested and approved by her own three children.

FREE Recipes

Plant-Powered Kitchen – Dreena Burton is mother to three hockey-playing girls and wife to a hockey-playing husband. She knows what it takes to cook delicious, healthy plant-based foods for active children and adults. Follow her on Twitter to see pictures of the lunches she makes for her girls to take to school.

Forks Over Knives – Over 230 FREE and delectable plant-based recipes! Just choose what you’re in the mood for from wraps & burgers to salads & sides to amazing grains. They also publish 1-2 recipes per week. If you sign up for their e-mail list, you’ll get those, too.

The Happy Herbivore – Simple, easy-to-follow recipes for beginners and everyone else. Lindsay posts tons of free recipes and is always creating new ways to help people transition to a whole food, plant-based diet.

One Green Planet – They post recipes every day! They also gather information from other websites on “food themes” like the best vegan cheesecake recipes and recipes for a vegan Thanksgiving. That way you can look through all the recipes and pick the one you think you’ll like best! One caveat: many recipes might have oils and such, but they’re easy to modify.

The Engine2Diet – Rip was a professional athlete on a plant-based diet. This is a great resource for people who need healthy foods that provide lots of energy.

Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD

Rosane Oliveira, DVM, PhD is Founding Director of UC Davis Integrative Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. Blending a life-long passion for food and nutrition with over 20 years of scientific experience in genetic research, Dr. Oliveira is devoted to educating people about how food and lifestyle choices can affect genetic expression–i.e. how genes are turned on and off and either cause disease or promote health. She is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived in the US since 2003.